Donald Stufft

By they way, here's some info: https://twitter.com/zzzeek/status/559747418397634561 https://twitter.com/zzzeek/status/559747644088942592 https://twitter.com/zzzeek/status/559747756563378177

The main "problem" with that, which isn't really a problem problem, just something to solve is currently the setup pulls from repositories, so we don't need to distribute secrets anywhere...

I'm not sure, I'm poking at it but it appears the event handler that is being registered by TransferManager isn't getting called at all.

Yea, that's because the INI format isn't particularly expressive, so we've had to layer on additional conventions to deal with more complex data types. I do think that it would...

Just to chime in, when I was integrating boto3 into my project I found it's API for accessing S3 to be a nicer API that I understood better and that...

There are a number of places where botocore internally has retry capabilities for but you're correct that we don't expose it to end users. I'm going to go ahead and...

Thanks, marking this as a feature enhancement.

I don't think that this is actually specific to ``setup.py / distutils / setuptools`` here, the question ultimately comes down to "inside of an sdist, can we require platform specific...

I'd just also add, that it's somewhat unfortunate that the design of ``setup.py`` generally means that dealing with this problem is more or less dependent on each individual package going...

@altendky Not exactly! For instance, pipenv is doing this to resolve dependencies for the lockfile right? So what happens if you try to generate a lock file, and the sdist...